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1 online resource (x, 159 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Black aesthetics and the personal -- The violence inside -- The beast within the city -- Blues no more -- Interlude: The Afro samurai's symptom -- Past the Chokecherry tree -- Epilogue: Nina Simone's script. |
| Summary |
"Christopher Freeburg's Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence, have completely robbed victims of their personhood, Freeburg rethinks what it means to be a person in the works of black artists. This book advances the idea that individual persons always retain the ability to withhold, express, or change their ideas, and this concept has profound implications for long-held assumptions about the relationship between black interior life and black collective political interests. Examining an array of seminal black texts--from Ida B. Wells's antilynching pamphlets to works by Richard Wright, Nina Simone, and Toni Morrison--Freeburg demonstrates that the personhood represented by these writers unsettles rather than automatically strengthens black subjects' relationships to political movements such as racial uplift, civil rights, and black nationalism. He shows how black artists illuminate the challenges of racial collectivity while stressing the vital stakes of individual personhood. In his challenge to current African Americanist criticism, Freeburg makes a striking contribution to our understanding of African American literature and culture."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African American aesthetics.
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African American aesthetics. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freeburg, Christopher. Black aesthetics and the interior life. Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2017 9780813940311 (DLC) 2017001106 (OCoLC)984149137 |
| ISBN |
9780813940328 (electronic book) |
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081394032X (electronic book) |
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9780813940335 (electronic book) |
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0813940338 (electronic book) |
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9780813940335 (e-book) |
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9780813940311 |
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0813940311 |
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081394032X |
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